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Summary of the Novella
Billy Budd typifies the Handsome Sailor in his demeanor of moral goodness and grace. A merchant seaman on the vessel the Rights-of-Man, he is removed from his ship by Lieutenant Ratcliffe and pressed into service on board a British naval ship, the Indomitable. (Several versions, including the Penguin Classics series, name the ship the Bellipotent instead of the Indomitable.)
There he becomes a popular hero among his new shipmates, universally well-liked and respected by all with the exception of the sinister master-at-arms, John Claggart. Billy even becomes a favorite of Captain Vere, the commander of the Indomitable.
Claggart wrongfully accuses Billy Budd of participating in a mutiny plot and demands that Billy answer to the charge. Billy is unable to defend himself verbally because of a stammer. In angry frustration Billy suddenly strikes out at Claggart, stabbing him to death.
It is Captain Vere's sad duty to try Billy on the charges of murder and mutiny. Despite his love for Billy, Vere's first obligation is to the preservation of law and order.
Billy Budd is convicted by a drumhead court and sentenced to death. All hands on board are summoned to watch the sentence carried out. As Billy is hanged, his last words are "God Bless Captain Vere."
Despite the fact that officially Billy is found to be guilty, his shipmates remember him as a perfect example of moral goodness and innocence. His story becomes legend among sailors, even being immortalized in a ballad, "Billy in the Darbies."
The Life and Work of Herman Melville
Herman Melville was born in New York in 1819. His forebears were well-to-do and socially prominent, but his immediate family suffered from financial instability. His once prosperous household fell upon hard times. In 1832 his father's bankruptcy and death cut short his formal education and forced him to give up hopes for a suitable career. He tried several jobs to help out his family, including teaching school and clerking in a bank. In 1839, when all his attempts to restore his family's fortune had failed, Melville went to sea on a British ship, the St. Lawrence, bound for Liverpool.
In 1841 he signed aboard the Achushnet, which was headed for the South Seas. The brutal conditions aboard that ship led Melville and a companion to desert in the Marquesas Islands, where, in 1842, he became the well-treated captive of the cannibalistic Typees. Later he was rescued, only to become involved in a mutiny before finally returning home to the United States on a naval vessel in 1844.
Although he had never before considered a career as a writer, his friends urged him to publish memoirs of his adventures. His early works were quite successful, but his later writings were neither commercial successes nor critically appreciated. His successful sea novels included Typee (1846), Omoo (1847), Redburn (1848), and White Jacket (1850). In 1851, he wrote Moby-Dick, which most reviewers at the time criticized as incomprehensible.
After his story Pierre (1852) was similarly attacked, he began writing for magazines, and tried farming to make ends meet. He had married Elizabeth Shaw of Massachusetts in 1847, and he had a family to support. He tried his hand unsuccessfully at lecturing before finally taking a job as a customs inspector, a position he held for 20 years. He died on September 28, 1891, and lies buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in New York.
Estimated Reading Time
Billy Budd is a novella (a short novel). Reading time is approximately 20 pages an hour. The novella has 105 pages, so it can be finished within four to five hours.
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Billy Budd, Foretopman was written during Melville's final years. He may have begun it after reading "The Mutiny on the Somers" in The American Magazine in June, 1888. Melville's cousin Guert Gansevoort had been a lieutenant on the U.S. brig-of-war Somers in 1842 and had been a member of the military court that condemned a young seaman accused of mutiny. Melville may have wanted an...
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5 Tips to Perfect Party Makeup
3 Dos (and 2 Don'ts) of Party Season Makeup
This time of year requires you to stretch your beauty skills to create new and exciting makeup looks for every seasonal soiree. Feeling adventurous? Neutrogena brand ambassador Amy Oresman gives the run-down on what to try — and what to avoid — as you prepare for your next event. Get her list of dos and don'ts for night-out makeup when you keep reading.
1. Do use primer Reach for primer before you apply your foundation in the morning as usual. But then dot on a second layer of primer over makeup as a touch-up before your night out. "It keeps the oil from coming, but it also gives a beautiful feel to your face," Oresman says. For a highlighted effect, mix the primer with an illuminating product and dab under the brows, on the cheekbones, and on the nose.
2. Don't go overboard "People think they have to have two different makeup looks, but all you need to do is have the look you really love," says Oresman. "Double it. Triple it. Then add your accessory piece like a red lipstick, a sparkly eyeliner, or a few individual lashes," she advises. Tip: use your favourite bronzer as shadow to define your crease.
3. Do double up on mascara Reapplying mascara at the end of the day can be a tough task when lashes are already brittle and dry. But Oresman recommends starting from the top for the smoothest application. Roll the wand above lashes to coat them. Then touch them lightly with your fingers to get rid of clumps.
4. Do embrace the smudges Oresman recommends applying foundation last to clean up any shadow spills. Also consider using smudges to your advantage, especially for a smoky finish. "I'm about not having too much perfection: own the imperfections," she says. "For Christmas, break your magnified mirror. That is not how people see you. They want to look at the overall freshness of the look."
5. Don't pack powder "Powder is not your best friend. It makes your skin drier, which promotes the production of more oil," Oresman explains. "You shouldn't wear anything with titanium dioxide in it because it reflects light, and it makes you look like you're shiny when you're really not." Instead, head to the bathroom to blot with tissue or blotting papers (or even toilet seat covers in a bind).

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DMV & Passport and Pistols Saturdays
The Monroe County Clerk's Office hosts Passports and Pistols and DMV Saturdays the last Saturday of each month (except the month of December).
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No Appointment Necessary, Photos Are Available, Plenty of Free Parking In addition to passport and pistol permit services, Monroe County veterans can also obtain their Veteran Discount Card at the County Clerk's office from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. The Veteran's Discount Card program provides free photo ID cards to Monroe County veterans which provides them with access to discounted services at participating businesses throughout Monroe County as a way to help honor and support them for their service. Veterans can obtain their card by filing their original or certified copy of their discharge papers (form DD214) with the Clerk's Office or by having the office confirm that the DD214 has already been filed. For more information on the program, please visit www.monroecounty.gov/veterans-mcvdcp. Click Here For Additional Passport Information
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AUDI R8 SPYDER Revell #4940
VERSIONS: Stock
MOLDED COLORS: White, Clear, Satin Plated
The 5.7 liter V-10 is represented here by a 19-piece assembly. Overall engraving level on the components is very good, better than many recent toolings from Revell of Germany (from whom this kit originates.) The six-piece engine cover obscures most of that fine detail from view, as does its mid-engine placement. No less than seven decals adorn different areas of that engine cover, which is a very nice touch indeed.
As with most supercars today, the chassis builds off an aerodynamic pan and the R8 is no exception. The pan has the lower A-arms of both front and rear suspensions molded in place and features excellent underside detailing. All four wheel housings are separate from the pan unit. Front suspension is an eight-piece assembly with poseable steering, and the rear suspension is a six-piece unit with fine coilover detail. The all-wheel-drive aspect of the R8 is replicated well here, though it wouldn't be seen unless the body was removed. Detailed disc brakes with caliper detail are at all four corners, and you have a choice of Audi or R8 logos to adorn the calipers. The exhaust system is part of the engine unit, and is nicely done, with separate plated exhaust tips that only need some black paint inside to deepen the visual impact.
Plated five-spoke Audi cast wheels with separate plated spiders ride on black vinyl big-and-little no-name wide low profile tires with excellent tread detail.
The interior bucket has the console and rear wall molded in place. Side panels are separate and have very good armrest representations. The seats are two-piece, with fine engraved detail representations of the side seat adjustment controls. The dash is a four-piece unit with separate instrument hood, column (with stalks), and flat-bottomed steering wheel. Dash engraving is first rate, and no less than nine decals adorn it, including gauges, multifunc- tion panel, and horn button. Separate detail parts include shifter, brake lever, console trim, and hanging pedal unit (with dead pedal footrest.)
The R8 Spyder isn't just a coupe with its roof whacked off; it's a whole new body design, captured very well here. The one piece body has the front fascia molded in as well as the characteristic louvers on the rear deck. Those louvers and the side scoops are molded open. At the front are a separate plated grille (Euro-style) with Euro-style license plate, two five-piece headlight units with separate lens covers and reflectors, separate louvered gills, and a chromed Audi four-rings logo. At the rear is a separate fascia panel with separate rear trim panel containing louvered gills, Euro-style license plate, clear taillight lenses backed by deep chrome bezels (get that transparent red paint out, folks), rear spoiler lip, clear high mounted center brake light lens (transparent red again!), gas cap, and another chrome Audi rings logo. The side scoops have blanking plates, and this as well as all other open scoop, louvered, and gill areas have decalized black grille mesh. Two-piece side mirrors have plated faces, and the wipers are delicate separate pieces also. The rear engine hood has excellent underside engraving and is hinged at the front end. Optional is an up-top with clear rear window and optional clear side windows. The windshield frame is molded to the body but has a separate inner liner panel with overhead spotlight engraving and decalized light lenses. The windshield itself has the area to be painted semigloss black clearly marked out for masking, with a separate rear view mirror. All clear parts are very thin and distortion-free.
In addition to what we've already mentioned, the extensive decal sheet also includes all three mirror faces, wheel centers, R8 and V10 logos in silver, amber turn signal areas for the taillights, and your choice of Euro-style license plates–white and black SPYDER, black and white Audi rings, Netherlands 11-DOA-1, France SP-313-DR, Italy BO 525 PS, Great Britain R313 FST, and Germany IN R 8101.


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MTV is planning to re-air Laguna Beach and The Hills as part of its weekday "RetroMTVBrunch" schedule. Additionally, the network will debut a never-before-aired alternate ending to The Hills.
Kicking off Monday, July 8 at 9 a.m. ET/PT, MTV will run their hit reality show Laguna Beach from the beginning. The first season, which premiered in 2004, launched the careers of Lauren Conrad, Kristin Cavallari and Stephen Colletti. Beginning Tuesday, July 9, the 4-hour episode block begins airing at 8 a.m. ET/PT.
Frenemies, fights and falls: Check out our 7 favorite Hills moments
As a special treat, on Friday, August 9 at 11:30 a.m. ET/PT, MTV will air an alternate ending to The Hills. When the series ended its 6-season run in 2010, the final scene showed Cavallari and Brody Jenner saying goodbye, before a back drop moved and depicted the green screen they were in front of as a nod to the rumors that the show was fake.
Lauren Conrad's top words of wisdom
During the marathon, current MTV stars including Awkward's Molly Tarlov and Jillian Rose Reed and Girl Code's Nicole Byer and Nessa will provide commentary.
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When I get a message directly to me I get a number of notifications. One of them is a blinking red dot on the Adium duck in my menu bar (near the clock, battery power, etc). When I get a message in a group chat, I don't get that blinking red dot. Other notifications work fine. The message itself is displayed for a few seconds, the dock icon gets the name of the group chat overlaid,... But not the blinking red dot.
I've set the list of notifications for every thing that I think could be relevant to be the same list as my "Message Received", but it doesn't seem to help (I've attached an image of my Events preferences dialog). Also, in Preferences > Advanced > Message Alerts > Status Menu Item I have "Flash when there are unread messages" checked.
Can someone please tell me what I am missing?
FWIW, I'm running OSX 10.10.5 & Adium 188.8.131.52.
Thank you very much.
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I have found the answer to my question; uncheck the ticky box at Preferences -> Advanced -> Message Alerts -> Dock Icon and Status Menu Item Counts -> Only count number of highlights and mentions for group chats.
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"The sunshine is nice and the sea is foamy…", goes Jose Marti's loving verse, and in Cuba, the biggest island in the Antilles, 5 star hotel Melia Habana welcomes visitors coming from all parts of the world.
Because of Melia Habana's privileged location on the west coast, right at the centre of the elegant neighbourhood of Miramar, sort of the orbit of the managerial and business world, very near to Havana International Conference Centre and the Miramar Trade Centre, and only fifteen minutes away from the Jose Marti International Airport, this hotel is an ideal option for business travellers.
In a safe and friendly atmosphere, the guests will have a complete set of services and attractions: spacious, highly comfortable rooms, with Internet access and huge balconies overlooking the sea; different restaurants and bars; nice and very large swimming pool, landscaped with palm trees and tropical plants in the garden; sports facilities, and even health and beauty treatment, are among many other options.
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Air conditioning
Barber / men's hair-stylist
Business centre
Cafe / snack bar
Car rental desk
Children's swimming pool
Conference halls & rooms
Daily newspapers
Elevators / lifts
Evening entertainment - cabarets
Games room
Gym & fitness centre
Health & Beauty salon
International cuisine
Internet by WiFi for your laptop
Internet on hotel's PCs
Ladies hair-styling
Laundry & Ironing Service
Lobby bar
Mastercard & Visa (not USA bank issued) accepted
Modern building
Money exchange
Pool bar
Post office
Reception staff speak Spanish, English, French, German, Italian
Safety - doctor in hotel - on call 24hrs
Safety - hotel built of fire-proof materials
Safety - smoke detectors, fire alarms, strobes, extinguishers, sprinklers
Safety - staff trained in first aid & CPR
Safety - uniformed security personnel 24hrs
Secretarial services
Shop(s) with basic supplies, souvenirs & gifts
Shops max 2min walk
Snacks and drinks 24 hours a day
Squash court
Swimming pool
Taxis desk
Telephone - national & international calls
Tennis court(s)
Tours & tourist information desk
TV room/bar (international channels & videos)
Voltage 220/240
WiFi free
326 spacious Double Standard rooms, all beautifully decorated, complete with a terrace or balcony and all the comforts imaginable.
© 2012 Nigel Hunt
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Twin beds
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In addition to all facilities as in standard rooms, the guests will also enjoy a stunning view of the ocean.
© 2012 Nigel Hunt
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When I showed up at the headquarters of the solar stove foundation Centro de Desarrollo en Energia Solar, or CEDESOL, in Cochabamba, Bolivia, there was no smoke or electric power in sight, just the smell of sizzling chicken and potatoes for our lunch in the open courtyard. A few feet away I found the source of the smell—simple-looking, brightly painted wooden boxes, lined with mirrors.
The way that many people cook their food in the developing world—over open fires, often in enclosed spaces—comes with many social and environmental costs. World Health Organization studies have shown that respiratory problems resulting from smoke inhalation indoors are the leading cause of death for children under five. These inefficient fires are created with wood from local forests, causing deforestation and subsequent erosion and desertification. One only needs to look to the barren hillsides of Haiti, where people cook largely with charcoal from local forests, to understand this impact. Soot, or "black carbon," is also one of the most polluting forms of carbon, having a global warming potential far higher than CO2. In the end, it is these same communities putting black carbon into the atmosphere that will bear the brunt of climate change impacts.
Luckily, the stoves like the ones CEDESOL produces in Bolivia offer a single solution to deal with these three major problems confronting rural communities around the world. These cooking devices rely only on power from the sun and are built entirely with materials indigenous to Bolivia. It is the kind of solution that embodies many of the elements necessary to really get to work solving climate change—local, small-scale, incorporating indigenous knowledge and materials, and with simple, easy-to-use technology.
One of the hottest terms at the international climate negotiations is technology transfer, which typically requires funding for the transfer of high-tech (and high-cost) new solutions from the Global North to the Global South. What is special, and very important, about the work CEDESOL is doing is that the technology of clean-burning, solar stoves has been transferred from the Global South to the Global South. Every part of the stoves CEDESOL manufactures is indigenous to Bolivia. Alpaca wool insulates the cooking surface, local pinewood forms the frame, the aluminum reflectors are recycled newspaper printing plates, and the glass cover that lets in and keeps in the sun's heat is manufactured in-country. Financed by international donors and microfinance organizations, CEDESOL is creating a network of employment to produce the materials necessary to create the stoves. CEDESOL is able to provide the stoves to rural families who would not otherwise have the capital to change their cooking options. It also takes the time to train families and communities to use and service the stoves.
As CEDESOL's director says, "If we don't stand up and spread these low-tech solutions, we're just as bad as the world's worst polluters."
For more information and to donate a stove and change someone's life in Bolivia, please visit www.cedesol.org.


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Google Authorship Troubleshooting: Article Attributed to Wrong AuthorBlog Post: September 20, 2013
Hello Mark,
Great post and I gave up on my Google Authorship after testing several ways to claim the authorship. I'm giving it another try after reading your article.
Structured Data Testing tool show Authorship is working, but SERP doesn't display the my photo. I'm using Genesis and have the following setup.
- Google + (under contact info) has link to my Google+ Profile.
- Byline Name links to author page in the blog.
- Author Page links the exact name to G+ profile with ?rel=author and same info is also displayed in Author Box below blog post which links my name with ?rel=author to G+ profile.
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I wrote a small book on the church and its frescoes in the middle of the 1990s. In the following, I will give a brief overview of the monument, based on my earlier text. The text is illustrated by new photographs of the frescoes, most of which I received from the restorer, Loránd Kiss.
Before we start, have a look at the pre-restoration state of the church, on the Treasures of Szeklerland website. Select 'Mugeni' from among the churches - and take a virtual tour of the exterior and interior of the church.
|Bögöz, view of the church
The village of Bögöz is in the middle of Udvarhelyszék, on the left bank of the river Nagyküküllő. The village was first mentioned in the sources in 1333 and 1334, as part of the Archidiaconatus Telegdiensis. The settlement at that time was one of the larger villages of the area, and it maintained an important role in later centuries as well. During the fourteenth century, several noble families from the village were mentioned in documents. The sources between 1481 and 1505 often mention a certain John of Bögöz, later captain of Udvarhelyszék, who certainly must have played an important role in the late Gothic rebuilding of the church.
The church is now Calvinist, and its building is surrounded by a simple wall. The church consists of three main parts: a large western tower, nave and sanctuary. The simple nave and the bottom parts of the tower are still from the Romanesque period, and the foundations of the original, semicircular apse were discovered inside the present late Gothic sanctuary. Thus the original church must have been built in the 13th century. The nave had been vaulted with a net-vaulting probably at the end of the fifteenth century, but this vaulting was later destroyed, and only the corbels in the wall survived. The nave is now covered with a painted coffered ceiling from 1724. The elaborate stone-vaulting of the sanctuary and its sculpted corbels have survived up to the present day.
The wall-paintings of the church are preserved on the north wall of the nave. József Huszka discovered them in the summer of 1898, and published his results and copies in the same year. The present condition of the paintings can be compared with the two sets of Huszka's copies - the sketches in the Ethnographic Museum, and the final versions in the collection of the OMvH.


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Isaac Wendland, pictured here celebrating his Big South 1,500-meter title, qualified for the 2013 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships in the 1,500 on Saturday.
Liberty's Isaac Wendland added to an already memorable redshirt senior season on Saturday, qualifying for the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships in the men's 1,500 in record-breaking fashion on the final day of the NCAA Division I East Preliminary Round meet at Aggie Stadium. Wendland, who previously captured the Big South and IC4A men's 1,500 titles, earned the East Region's final time-qualifying berth to the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Eugene, Ore., with a seventh-place finish in his quarterfinal heat and a sterling time of 3:43.91. Wendland's clocking breaks his own school record of 3:44.06 from Thursday's heat. It also eclipses the Big South Conference all-time standard of 3:43.99, which was set by High Point's Taylor Milne in 2002. Wendland became Liberty's first men's 1,500 runner ever to reach the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships thanks to a powerful final lap charge. At the bell, the Hawkeye State native stood in 10th place in a fast race, thanks in large part to the aggressive pacing work of defending national champion Andrew Bayer of Indiana up front. Wendland passed Indiana's Adam Behnke and Georgetown's Bobby Peavy down the backstretch to move into eighth. The redshirt senior and Binghamton's Jesse Garn then waged a back-and-forth duel down the home straightaway. In the end, Wendland out-leaned Garn by 0.07 seconds for what proved to be the event's second and final Eugene time qualifier and Wendland's first visit to the NCAA national meet. Caleb Edmonds very nearly joined Wendland in qualifying for Eugene during the men's 5K, finishing just one spot and 0.68 seconds out of the final berth in his section. The Empire State native took sixth place in his heat in a time of 14:09.38, which put him 15th overall out of the 46 entrants. After a dawdling early pace, Edmonds was one of a handful of runners who stepped on the accelerator during the closing stages. He clocked 4:12.45 for the last 1,600 and 2:02.97 for the final 800, enabling him to move into fifth place during a good portion of the last lap. However, Columbia's Mark Feigen edged past Edmonds on the final straightaway, claiming the fifth and final qualifying spot in the section. Mychelle Cumings, who had qualified for Eugene in the women's discus on Thursday, threw the shot put Saturday afternoon. She topped out at 48-4.75 for 29th place. Christina Mitchell wrapped up her successful collegiate career as a seven-time Big South event champion on Saturday. She placed 36th in the women's javelin, with a top throw of 140-3. Reigning Big South men's triple jump champion Chris Johnson went 48-1.75 on his second attempt on Saturday, placing 39th overall in the event. Kyle Wheeler, competing at this meet for the second year in a row, made it over 6-6.75 on his second high jump attempt. However, that's as high as the sophomore would go on the evening. Liberty will send three athletes to Eugene, Ore., for the 2013 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships, including Cumings in the women's discus, Wendland in the men's 1,500 and Ryan Smith in the men's shot put. Smith will throw on June 5, with Cumings and Wendland set to compete on June 6 at historic Hayward Field.


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A Special Election was decided in the 24th Assembly District pitting myself against David Weprin. The results of that election are now tarnished due to my opponent's use of political hate mail tactics; specifically a disturbing flyer that was timed to arrive in mailboxes four days prior to the election in which I had little or no time to respond.
The flyer which was approved by Weprin and mailed to thousands of voters in the district associated my name with a crime scene, the word "Extremist" and a Nazi swastika superimposed on it. Attacking my character, distorting my positions and defaming my reputation by sending a flyer with Nazi symbolism to Jewish homes for political gain is repugnant.
As a civic leader, when I embarked on my political journey, I knew politics was a dirty business, but nothing prepared me for the vicious smear attacks and slanderous onslaught exhibited by my opponent.
I am labeled an "extremist" with Nazi symbolism because I had the audacity to say, "All crimes are hate crimes and all victims deserve equal protection under the law."
That is not an "extremist" position. "Extremism" is photoshopping swastikas onto campaign literature and then mailing it to Jewish households. "Extremism" is using Nazi symbolism to exploit people's pain and suffering for personal gain and political expediency. "Extremism" is saying you support hate speech laws and then using the very tactics that those laws seek to suppress.
Mailing political hate literature with Nazi imagery in a campaign is vicious and offensive to people of all religions. It goes beyond anything I have seen in a campaign and because I am Jewish, I also received it in the mail and was sickened by it, as was my father, a WWII veteran.
Weprin has yet to issue an apology for the hate mail flyer.
Instead, his campaign manager, Corey Bearak continues to issue statements on Weprin's behalf vigorously defending it. Although the Weprin campaign address appears on the piece, the Weprin name was strategically left off.
Voters must also be held accountable and need to ask themselves why they are so willing to elect someone who would allow such a flyer to be used and disseminated in the community. Are dynasty candidates simply immune from from the rules of fair play unlike their challengers and given a free pass?
As a civic leader and president of Glen Oaks Village-, a multi-ethnic community of 10,000 residents, I have worked hard to unite people, not divide them. The hate speech tactics and politics of personal destruction chosen by Weprin to win an election at any cost, and his inability to exercise sound judgment, will always tarnish the election results for many in the community and especially the nearly 40% of the voters that chose to vote for the other candidate.
Bob Friedrich


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Thursday, March 29, 2012
Absolutes Rules of Photography: Unhelpful Tips for Beginner Photographers
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Browsing through the entries of this blog, one might think that photography is all work and no play, something that is to be approached with absolute solemnity and only when one is mature enough to differentiate between aperture and ISO. Nothing could be further from the truth as all photographers started their passion for photographers breaking a few rules here and there. If you've just bought a camera, or you're just looking to refresh your memory, these "Useful advices for photographers" by Ivars Gravlejs might be exactly what you're looking for.
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Up in the Air: Awesome Examples of Aerial Photography
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This week's intended series of posts have been condensed into this one mega-post, but that doesn't take away any of the awesomeness of the subject. It's all up in the air for today, literally speaking as all of these photographs here were taken from a higher than usual altitude. Featured here are the works of Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Vincent Laforet, Bryan Solarski and Alex Maclean. All of these talented photographers and artists are at the top when it comes to examples of awesome aerial photography.
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Mika Ninagawa: Color is Life
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Ever since the advent of color photography, the process of taking still images has never been the same. Suddenly, the real world could be more accurately captured to great effect. While the correct use of color can portray life more faithfully, its more imaginative use lends itself well to more fantastical creations. Portrait and fashion photographer Mika Ninagawa has been applying this very principle to advertise to the rest of the world that color is indeed life.
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Old Believers
The Old Believers (старове́ры or старообря́дцы) are a collection of schismatic groups from the Church of Russia. They are more properly known as Old Ritualists.
The schism itself is known as staroobryadchestvo (старообрядчество).
In 1652, Patriarch Nikon of the Russian Orthodox Church introduced a number of reforms aimed at centralizing his power and bringing Russian Orthodox ritual and doctrine in line with those of the Orthodox Church in the post-Byzantine world (e.g., in Greece and elsewhere). The Old Believers rejected Nikon's reforms, becoming labelled raskolniki (раско́льники), (i.e., 'schism-makers'). One of the main figures in the movement was Avvakum Petrovich. Even after the deposition of Nikon (1658), who broached too strong a challenge to the Tsar's authority, a series of church councils officially endorsed the liturgical reforms. Followers of the movement were anathematized at the synod in 1666-1667 and several, including Avvakum, were executed. The Old Believers thenceforce faced heavy persecution until the reign of Tsar Peter the Great, when they began to be tolerated as an extra source of tax revenue. An attempt to make the Old Believers obey the Church was the creation in 1801 of the uni-faith (единоверчество) church.
Early Old Belief was characterized by rejecting "the World" where anti-Christ reigned; they preached about the imminent end of the world, asceticism, adhering to the old rituals and the old faith. Given a lack of bishops and priests, the laity were predominant. One group, the Popovtsy, sought to attract ordained priests and were able to set up an episcopate in the 19th century. The Bespopovtsy, on the other hand, renounced priests and all sacraments, except Baptism.
Old Belief became associated with a strict asceticism that could sometimes be taken to extremes. In the 17th century some groups in Karelia that belonged to the sect committed suicide through self-immolation. Other groups that broke off from the Old Believers practiced castration of men and removal of breasts from women in order to enforce sexual abstinence.
The Old Believers had no official toleration until 1905. In 1971 the Church of Russia lifted the anathemas placed on the Old Believers in the 17th century, but most Old Believer communities have not returned to full communion with other Orthodox Christians.
The Old Believers Today
In the modern day, differences between most Old Believer communities and mainstream Orthodox Christians are in details of ritual practice alone. However, centuries of persecution and the nature of their foundation has made them highly culturally conservative and mistrustful of anything they see as insufficiently Russian. Some Old Believers go so far as to consider any pre-Nikonian Orthodox Russian practice or artifact to be exclusively theirs, denying that the Russian Orthodox Church has any claims upon a history before Patriarch Nikon.
Approximately one million Old Believers remain today, some living in extremely isolated communities in areas of Russia to which they fled centuries ago to avoid persecution. Their life there has been compared by some to America's Amish communities.
A few Old Believer parishes in the United States have entered communion with the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, such as the Church of the Nativity in Erie, Pennsylvania. Another was received into the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America by Metropolitan Maximos of Pittsburgh.
Many other Old Believer groups exist, some with teachings and practices that have even less in common with those of the Orthodox Church, even straying into heresy.
External links
- The Eastern Christian Churches: The Old Believers (by Ronald Roberson, CSP, a Roman Catholic priest and scholar)
- Old believers in Karelia in the 17th century
- General informations (in Russian)


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Wearable Devices: How Geeky Glasses and Wristbands Will Move Mainstream
We've all seen the movies: Gadget-laden heroes from James Bond to Terminator to Iron Man have long relied on voice-controlled watches and heads-up display glasses to extend their powers. Now, those gadgets are a reality, albeit a niche one. Google co-founder Sergey Brin was recently spotted wearing a prototype from Google's "Project Glass." People you know may even be wearing sensor-laden wristbands like the Nike+ Fuelband or sneakers like the Adidas adizero F50, which track your speed and workout stats. The military is prototyping dual-focus contact lenses with data displays, while university students experiment with clothing that reacts to our emotions. Nokia has filed a patent for a vibrating tattoo that could alert you when someone calls or texts you — the ultimate wearable.
Wearables have enormous potential for uses in health and fitness, navigation, social networking, commerce, and media. Imagine videogames that happen in real space. Or glasses that remind you of a colleague's name that you really should know. Or paying for a coffee at Starbucks with your watch instead of your phone. Wearables will transform our lives in numerous ways, trivial and substantial, that we are just starting to imagine.
So what will it take to elevate these accessories from niche to mainstream? Hardware advances in battery life and the way sensors interact with each other will get us further than we are today, but the software platforms that drive the hardware hold the key to consumer adoption. In the same way that Windows took the PC mainstream and iOS and Android are powering the smartphone revolution today, wearables' success depends on backing from one or more of the big five software platforms — Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook. These platforms — and their developer communities — hold the key to the consumer connection. How so?
Apple has the most polished marketing, channel and brand. More than any other company, Apple has the potential to make any product go mainstream (witness the iPad). Apple's expertise in hardware manufacturing, its developer network, its marketing prowess and its channel strength in Apple Stores and partner retailers all add up to a fertile petri dish for wearables. Already, Apple has inspired a number of "app-cessories" built to sync with iOS devices, like the Lark sleep sensor wristband and the (now discontinued) Jawbone UP fitness wristband.
Google has an open platform and a license to dabble. Google's Android is the platform of choice for WIMM Labs, the Sony SmartWatch and others because it's open: Product strategists can build whatever products they want on top of Google's code while still taking advantage of the growing number of developers and companies that build Android apps. Additionally, Google has crucial elements of search infrastructure, with the ability to recognize and retrieve vast amounts of information like location-based data, which could be the basis for many wearable device features.
Microsoft has the best depth sensor yet. Windows Embedded, Microsoft's operating systems and related solutions for "intelligent systems," powers a wide range of products from Ford's Sync automobile information system to Polycom conference phones. But to date, these solutions have been geared more for enterprise use, and haven't attracted the same breadth of professional and amateur developers that iOS and Android platforms have — a crucial component for taking wearables mainstream. But another Microsoft product, the Kinect for Xbox 360, has captured developers' imaginations, prompting a Kinect application programming interface for Windows. The potential of a Microsoft powered wearable becomes much more tangible when you imagine the depth sensor of the Kinect turned outward from your body, toward the world rather than toward you.
Amazon has information on more than 100 million products and their buyers. More and more consumers are starting their product searches with Amazon. Its all-encompassing product catalog, detailed product specs and reviews and personalized recommendations would all be assets in wearables. But despite Amazon's success in manufacturing the Kindle line, we think it's more likely that Amazon's wearables strategy will center on distributing apps for other companies' devices, rather than manufacturing the device itself.
Facebook has a Rolodex — and facial recognition — for 800 million people. Facebook, like Amazon, has the tool kit to be a partner player in the wearables market. Facebook is controversially implementing facial recognition software to autotag photos from its 800 million users — software that would be a perfect fit with a wearable device. Like that guy on the train? Sorry, he's "in a relationship."
In three years, we believe wearables will matter to every product strategist, just as mobile and tablets matter today. And because the software platforms are the key to mainstream, these devices have the power to intensify the platform wars among the big five — over issues like talent, intellectual property and patents, developers and customers. Wearables will shift toward mainstream in three phases:
- Phase one: Apple grows the app-cessory market with a deeper investment in wearables. For instance, by adding more sensors and connectivity to the iPod nano, as well as Siri voice control, Apple could immediately spark innovation in iOS apps and more accessories for nano beyond its existing watchbands.
- Phase two: Google broadens wearable experimentation with its open platform. Our call that Google will dominate in wearables — at least in the short term — may be surprising given our skepticism about Android's prospects on tablets in the past. But an open platform for experimentation is exactly what wearables will need to evolve out of the early stages.
- Phase three: Microsoft competes with an "anti-platform" platform. With Windows 8, Microsoft is pivoting away from .NET/Silverlight to the open Web protocols of HTML5 and Javascript. This shift will be a strength for Microsoft to build on, promoting a future OS for wearables as a more flexible, scalable platform for developers than iOS or Android.
Sarah Rotman Epps is a Senior Analyst serving consumer product strategy professionals at Forrester Research. Follow her on Twitter @srepps. To learn more about this research, visit the full wearables research report here.


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A side-by-side Italian and English edition of the libretto. Famously first performed in Egypt in 1871, Aida, an Ethiopian princess, has been enslaved in Egypt. Her father has invaded Egypt in order to free her but he is defeated. A love triangle develops between Aida, a young warrior Rhadames, and Amneris, the Egyptian king's daughter. Aida and the persecuted Rhadames choose death together rather than be separated.
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Aida, an Ethiopian Slave.
Amneris, Daughter of the King of Egypt.
Rhadames, Captain of the Egyptian Guards.
Amonasro, King of Ethiopia (Aïda's Father).
Ramphis, High Priest of Isis.
King of Egypt.
A Messenger.
Priests, Priestesses, Ministers, Captains, Soldiers, Functionaries, Slaves, and Ethiopian Prisoners, Egyptian People, &c., &c.
The action takes place at Memphis and at Thebes during the reign of the Pharaohs.
Sala nel palazzo del Re a Menfi.—A destra e a sinistra una colonnata con statue e arbusti in fiori.—Grande porta nel fondo, da cui appariscono i tempii, i palazzi di Menfi e le Piramidi.
(Vedendo Aida.)
Il Re, preceduto dalle sue guardie e seguito da Ramfis, da Ministri, Sacerdoti, Capitani, ecc., ecc.—Un Ufficiale di Palazzo, indi un Messaggiero.
Interno del tempio di Vulcano a Menfi.—Una luce misteriosa scende dall'alto.—Una lunga fila di colonne, l'una all'altra addossate, si perde fra le tenebre.—Statue di varie divinità.—Nel mezzo della scena, sovra un palco coperto da tappeti sorge l'altare sormontato da emblemi sacri.—Dai tripodi d'oro si innalza il fumo degli incensi.
Sacerdoti e Sacerdotesse.—Ramfis ai piedi dell'altare.—A suo tempo, Radamès.—Si sente dall'interno il canto delle Sacerdotesse accompagnato dalle arpe.
Una sala nell'appartamento di Amneris.
Amneris circondata dalle schiave che l'abbigliano per la festa trionfale.—Dai tripodi si eleva il profumo degli aromi.—Giovani schiavi mori danzando agitano i ventagli di piume.
Uno degli ingressi della città di Tebe.—Sul davanti un gruppo di palme.—A destra il tempio di Ammone; a sinistra un trono sormontato da un baldacchino di porpora; nel fondo una porta trionfale.—La scena è ingombra di popolo.
Entra il Re seguito dai Ministri, Sacerdoti, Capitani, Flabelliferi, Porta-insegne, ecc., ecc. Quindi, Amneris con Aïda e Schiave.—Il Re va a sedere sul trono.—Amneris prende posto alla sinistra del Re.
Le rive del Nilo.—Roccie di granito fra cui crescono dei palmizii.—Sul vertice delle roccie il tempio d'Iside per metà nascosto tra le fronde.—E notte stellata.—Splendore di luna.
(Amneris dal tempio, indi Ramfis, Sacerdoti, Guardie e detti.)
Sala nel palazzo del Re.—Alla sinistra, una gran porta che mette alla sala sotterranea delle sentenze.—Andito a destra che conduce alla prigione di Radamès.—Amneris mestamente atteggiata davanti la porta del sotterraneo.
(Condotto dalle guardie.)
La scena è divisa in due piani.—Il piano superiore rappresenta l'interno del tempio di Vulcano splendente di oro e di luce; il piano inferiore un sotterraneo.—Lunghe file d'arcate si perdono nell'oscurità.—Statue colossali d'Osiride colle mani incrociate sostengono i pilastri della volta.
Radamès è nel sotterraneo sui gradini della scala per cui è disceso.—Al di sopra, due Sacerdoti intenti a chiudere la pietra del sotterraneo.
A hall in the King's palace at Memphis. To the right and left a colonnade with statues and flowers in blossom.—At the back a high gateway through which may be seen the temples and palaces of Memphis and the Pyramids.
Yes, the story goes that the Ethiopian once more ventures to threaten our power in the valley of the Nile as well as at Thebes. I shall soon learn the truth from a messenger.
Hast thou consulted the mysteries of Isis?
She has declared who shall be commander of all the Egyptian hosts.
Oh, happy man!
(With a meaning look at Radames.)
Young is he in years, and fearless. I go to bear the goddess' bidding to the King.
What if I am chosen! Be now my dream accomplished! I, the chosen leader of a mighty army! Mine, the victory! Mine the acclaim of all Memphis! To thee, returning, my sweet Aïda, crowned with laurel! To tell thee, that for thee I fought, for thee I conquered!
In thy face I see a joy unwonted! What noble fury glistens in thine eye! Ah me! How worthy of envy would be the woman whose loved presence could awaken such a glow of rapture in thy soul!
A dream of wild ambition in my heart's heart I cherished. To-day has the goddess told his name who shall lead the Egyptian host to battle,—what if I were chosen for this distinguished honour!
Has not another dream, and one more gentle, more alluring, spoken to thy heart? Hast thou not in Memphis something more earnestly desired and hoped for?
(Catching sight of Aida.)
The King enters, preceded by his Guards and followed by Ramphis, Ministers of State, Priests, Captains, etc., etc.—An officer of the Palace, and later, a Messenger.
Mighty the cause that summons you, O faithful sons of Egypt, round your King. From the land of Ethiopia a messenger has this moment reached us, bringing news of gravest import. Be pleased to hear him.
The sacred soil of Egypt is invaded by the barbarous Ethiop. Our fields are ravaged and the Edition: current; Page: [[17]] crops are burned. Emboldened by this easy victory, the plunderers are e'en now marching upon Thebes.
Outrageous insult!
A warrior indomitable, fierce, conducts them—Amonasro.
The King!
My father!
All Thebes is up in arms and, from her hundred gates, will pour on the invader her answer of war and carnage.
Yes, war and carnage be our cry henceforward.
War! War!
Terrible, unrelenting!
(Addressing Rhadames.)
Isis, most holy, has already appointed the supreme leader of all our dauntless hosts—Rhadames.
I thank you, O ye Gods! My dearest wish is won.
The leader!
I tremble!
Now to Vulcan's temple let us go, O warrior, there to gird thee with thy sacred armour and then to victory speed.Edition: current; Page: [[21]]
Returned victorious! Can my lips pronounce the impious word! Victorious o'er my father, o'er him who leads an army for me—that I may be restored to a country, a kingdom, and an illustrious name Edition: current; Page: [[25]] that now I'm forced to hide! Victorious o'er my brothers! E'en now I see him stained with their dear blood, amid the roaring triumph of the Egyptian host! And behind his chariot a King—my father—bound with chains!
Interior of the temple of Vulcan at Memphis. A mysterious light shining from above. A long row of columns, one behind the other, vanishing in the distance.—Statues of various Divinities. In the middle of the stage, above a platform Edition: current; Page: [[29]] carpeted with rich stuffs, rises the altar surmounted by the sacred emblems.—Golden tripods on which incense is burning.
Priests and Priestesses.—Ramphis at the foot of the altar.—Later Rhadames.—From within is heard the singing of the Priestesses accompanied by a harp.
Mortal, beloved of the gods, to thee is confided the destiny of Egypt. The sacred sword, divinely tempered, is placed in thy hands, to bring upon the enemy terror and ruin and death.
A hall in the apartments of Amneris.—Amneris surrounded by slave-girls, who are adorning her for the triumphal feast.—From the tripods perfumed incense is rising.—Moorish slave-boys dance and wave feather-fans.
Silence! Aïda is coming toward me—a daughter of the conquered race, to me her grief is sacred.
[At a sign from Amneris all the slaves retire.]
Seeing her again, the dreadful doubt awakens in my heart! At last I'll wrest her fatal secret from her!
(To Aïda, with pretended affection.)
The chances of battle have proved disastrous to thee, my poor Aïda! Be sure that I divide with thee the sorrow that weighs down thy heart. I am thy friend—ask what thou wilt of me, I would make thee happy!
How can I be happy, far from my native land and ignorant of the fate of my father and brothers!
I feel with thee deeply; and yet there is a limit to all sorrow here below. Time will cure the anguish of thy heart. And there is a powerful God, greater than time—Love.
What meanest thou?
Wretch, to say so!
Yes, Rhadames by thy tribe is slaughtered—And thou mourn'st him?
Forever I shall mourn!
The gods have avenged thee.
Forever hostile to me have been the gods—
(Bursting forth with rage.)
Ah! Tremble! In thy heart of hearts thou lovest him—
Away with seeming! A little word and I shall know the truth. Look on my face—I told thee falsely—Rhadames lives.
(Kneeling in ecstasy.)
He lives! The gods be praised!
Dost thou hope still to deceive me! Yes, thou lovest him—but I love him (with the utmost Edition: current; Page: [[47]] fury)—even I—dost thou hear me? Thy rival is a daughter of the Pharaohs!
(Drawing herself up with pride.)
My rival! If 'twere true—even I—
(Checking herself and falling at Amneris' feet.)
Entrance gate to the city of Thebes.—In front a cluster of palms.—To the right a temple of Ammon; to the left a throne with a purple canopy above; at the back a triumphal arch.—The stage is crowded with people.
Enter the King, followed by Ministers, Priests, Captains, Fan-bearers, Standard-bearers, etc., etc.—After them, Amneris with Aida and Slaves.—The King takes his seat upon the throne.—Amneris places herself on the King's left.
(Descends from the throne to embrace Rhadames.)
Saviour of thy country, I salute thee. Come, and my daughter, with her own hand, shall give thee the crown of triumph.
[Rhadames bows before Amneris, who gives him the crown.]
(To Rhadames.)
Ask what thou wilt and freely will I grant it. Naught shall be denied thee on such a day as this. I swear it by my crown and by the holy gods.
First deign to order that the captives be brought before thee.
[Enter the Ethiopian captives surrounded by a guard. Amonasro last, in the dress of simple officer.]
Whom see I! Is he here? My father?
Her father!
And in our power!
(Embracing her father.)
Thou! A prisoner!
(Aside to Aïda.)
Betray me not!
(To Amonasro.)
Approach thou—so then—thou art—?
(To the King.)
O King, by the holy gods and by the splendor of thy crown, thou didst swear to give me whatever I might ask.
I swore it.
Even so: I pray that thou grant life and liberty to these Ethiopian captives.
All of them!
Death to Egypt's enemies!
Mercy for the wretched!
Hear me, O King;
(To Rhadames.)
And thou, too, youthful hero, the voice of prudence hear:
With Amonasro, their warrior king slain, all hope of vengeance is lost.
At least, we should detain Aïda's father, as a hostage to peace and safety. Set all the others free.
I yield to thy advice. Yet now a surer bond of peace and safety will I give you. Rhadames, thy Edition: current; Page: [[67]] country owes thee all. The hand of Amneris, my daughter, shall be thy reward. Sovereign of Egypt shalt thou reign with her hereafter.
Now, now, let the slave-girl rob me of my love—she dare not!
The banks of the Nile—Granite hills covered with palm trees.—On the summit a temple of Isis, half hidden by the foliage.—Night full of stars and the splendor of the moon.
(To Amneris.)
Come to the temple of Isis, on the eve before thy marriage, and pray for the goddess's favor. To Isis are all hearts open. To her thy inmost thoughts are known.
Yes, and I will pray that Rhadames may give me all his heart, as my heart to him has e'er been wholly given.
Pray thou until dawn. I shall be near thee.
[All enter the temple.—The chorus repeat their hymn.]
Heavens! My father!
The weightiest reasons have brought me to thy side, Aïda. Naught escapes my eye. For love of Rhadames thou art dying. He loves thee, thou awaitest him. A daughter of the Pharaohs is thy rival.
O race accursed, abhorred and fatal to us! And I am in her power! I, Amonasro's daughter!
In her power! No! If thou wishest, thou shalt conquer thy powerful rival; and country and throne and love, all shall be thine. Thou shalt see again our balmy forests, our verdant vales, our temples built of gold!
I shall see again our balmy forests, our verdant vales, our temples built of gold!
(Repulsing her.)
Go, misbegotten, thou art not my daughter. Thou art the Pharaohs' slave.
Not love thee! Ne'er god nor mortal burned with such devouring passion.
In vain, thou sayest? Then fall the axe on me and on my father!
Nay, tell me by what path we may avoid their rising army?
By the path that we have chosen to fall upon the Ethiopians. It will be deserted until morning.
And what path is that?
The passes of Napata!
(Springs forward.)
The passes of Napata! There I'll post my troops.
Oh! Who has overheard us?
Aïda's father, Ethiopia's King.
(In great surprise.)
Thou! Amonasro! Thou, the King! Heavens! What sayest thou? No! 'Tis false! I dream, I rave in madness!
For thee I have betrayed my country, lost my honor!
(Enter Amneris from the temple, then Ramphis, priests, guards, as above.)
My rival!
(Rushing toward Amneris with a dagger.)
Thou comest to mar my plans! Die, then!
Nay, strike not, madman!
O fury!
Guards, advance there!
(To Aïda and Amonasro.)
This instant! Fly!
(Dragging Aida away.)
Come thou, my daughter!
(To the guards.)
Quickly! Follow them!
(To Ramphis.)
Holy priest, to thee I yield.
A hall in the King's palace.—On the left, a great gate leading to a subterranean hall of justice.—A passage on the right leading to Rhadames' prison.—Amneris, crouching sorrowfully before the great gate.
My hated rival has escaped me, and from the priests Rhadames is awaiting a traitor's doom. Yet traitor he is none. Though he disclosed a weighty secret of war—he meant to fly—to fly with her. Traitors are they all! To death! To death! Oh, what have I said? I love him, I love him still. Yes, desperate, mad is this love that is eating out my heart. Oh, if he could only love me! Fain would I save him! But how? I'll try it! Guards, Rhadames bring hither.
(Led in by guards.)
For her, I have staked my country and my honour!
No more of her!
I, the cause of her death! No, Aïda lives.
She lives!
They were beaten and fled in wild confusion. Her father perished.
And she?
I cannot!
I cannot.
Life's thread thou wouldst sever?
Ready for death am I.
(Falling disconsolate upon a seat.)
Ah, me! I feel death approaching. Oh, who will save him? Now he is in their power and I have sealed his fate! Oh, how I curse thee, outrageous jealousy, that hast doomed him to death and me to endless sorrow!
[She turns and sees the priests, who cross the stage to enter the subterranean chamber.]
What do I see? There come the fatal, inexorable ministers of death—let me not look upon those white-robed spectres!
[She covers her face with her hands.]
(From below.)
Rhadames, Rhadames: thou hast betrayed the secrets of thy country to the enemy.
Defend thyself!
He is silent.
Rhadames, Rhadames: thou wast absent from the camp the day before the battle!
Defend thyself!
He is silent.
Rhadames, Rhadames: thou hast been false to country, king and honour.
Defend thyself!
He is silent.
He is a traitor. Let him die!
He is a traitor. Let him die!
The stage is divided into two floors.—The upper floor represents the temple of Vulcan resplendent with gold and light; the lower floor is a vault.—Long arcades vanishing in the gloom.—Colossal statues of Osiris, with crossed hands, support the pillars of the vault.
Rhadames is discovered at the foot of the steps by which he has descended into the vault.—Above two priests are letting down the stone that closes it.
Yes, I—
Thou—in this tomb!
That sad chanting!
'Tis the sacred dance of the priesthood.
And our death chant sounding!


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Brown Rice 'n' Apple Stuffed Turkey
Mouthwatering flavors of autumn permeate this lovely stuffing concocted by our Test Kitchen home economists. Apple bits and plump raisins add fruity flavor to the brown rice.—Taste of Home Test Kitchen
Total TimePrep: 1 hour Bake: 2-3/4 hours + standing
Makes6 servings with leftovers
- 1 can (14-1/2 ounces) reduced-sodium chicken broth
- 1/2 cup unsweetened apple juice, divided
- 1/2 teaspoon salt, divided
- 1 cup uncooked long grain brown rice
- 1/3 cup raisins
- 1/2 cup chopped celery
- 1/2 cup chopped onion
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 cup chopped tart apple
- 1 teaspoon poultry seasoning
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1 turkey (10 to 12 pounds)
- In a saucepan, combine the broth, 1/3 cup apple juice and 1/4 teaspoon salt. Bring to a boil. Stir in the rice and raisins. Return to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 40-50 minutes or until rice is tender.
- Meanwhile, in a nonstick skillet, cook celery and onion in butter for 2 minutes. Add apple; cook and stir for 3 minutes or until vegetables are tender. Combine the rice mixture, apple mixture, poultry seasoning, pepper and remaining apple juice and salt.
- Just before baking, loosely stuff turkey. Skewer turkey openings; tie drumsticks together. Place breast side up on a rack in a roasting pan. Bake, uncovered, at 325° for 2-3/4 to 3 hours or until a thermometer reads 180° for the turkey and 165° for the stuffing. (Cover loosely with foil if turkey browns too quickly.)
- Cover turkey and let stand for 20 minutes. Remove stuffing and carve turkey, discarding skin. If desired, thicken pan drippings for gravy.
Editor's Note: Stuffing may be prepared as directed and baked separately in a 1-1/2-qt. baking dish coated with nonstick cooking spray. Cover and bake a 325° for 25 minutes. Uncover; bake 10-15 minutes longer or until heated through.
Nutrition Facts3 ounce-weight: 286 calories, 8g fat (3g saturated fat), 51mg cholesterol, 443mg sodium, 37g carbohydrate (0 sugars, 3g fiber), 17g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 2-1/2 starch, 1 lean meat.
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As this has become a family staple, I guess I should review it.I found this recipe because we live gluten free, and have a strong bias towards brown over white rice.The recipe was very easy to make. My whole family likes it, including the fussy kids. What better recommendation is there than that.Of note, the stuffing really expands during cooking. The first couple of times it blew the bird open and poured out -- kinda fun. I just put a 15 pound turkey into the oven, and it was well stuffed with a single recipe.


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*Integrating the Fourth DAY and preparing for the breakthrough of the Fifth DAY*
A common misconception about the Mayan calendar is that this is about something?, usually an astronomical event, that will happen in 2012?. In such a view the Mayan calendar has little value as guidance in the present moment and its use is regarded as separate from the actual lives that we live, both as a global collective and as individuals. In order to make meaningful use of the Mayan calendar we need to be able to understand its alternating energies of time as parts of the context of the particular era we are currently living, in which the Galactic Underworld, which is the one that most directly influences human consciousness at the present time.
In the Galactic Underworld we have recently, as of November 29 2005, passed out of the Fourth DAY and entered the Fourth NIGHT and so this may be an appropriate time to summarize and look ahead. The article that I wrote at the beginning of the Fourth DAY is however still posted on my web site and may be evaluated as a prediction for some of the things that the DAY that we have now past brought along. I feel in two significant ways its predictions have turned out to be accurate: The shift making the Asian nations, and in particular China, to the engines of the world economy. Even though this may now seem obvious to everyone as recently as a year ago it was not. What in retrospect maybe I would have liked to have added is that this economic shift to the East now also includes Russia, which in no small way has experienced a growth in its economy.
Another thing that was predicted in my article of a year ago was the Mukti-Maya unification. The increasing awareness among people in a process towards enlightenment that this process follows the rhythm of the Mayan calendar. Hence, the midlight meditation of June 1-2, 2005, the midpoint of the Fourth DAY, was the world's first globally synchronized diksha event, whose effects were even detectable from a statistically significant way from the random number generators of the Global Consciousness Project led by Dr. Roger Nelson. Although certainly the number of spiritual individual and movements that see their activities and goals as associated to the cosmic process of evolution described by the Mayan calendar is very limited, I feel there are reasons to expect that others will join in especially as the Fifth DAY begins on November 24, 2006. It is my feeling that only those movements and individuals that are in phase with the DAYS and NIGHTS of the Mayan calendar are heading towards making a viable contribution to the cosmic process in which we are currently involved. This process is in Christian terminology called the Apocalypse, the time of revelation of a higher truth.
One thing that my article of a tun (360 day period) ago did not predict, but nonetheless has now become evident, is the increase in natural disasters during the Fourth DAY. Starting with the Tsunami during the uinal of death the tun was marked by several earthquakes and an unusual series of hurricanes, including that which hit New Orleans, and the emergence of a lingering threat of a bird flu epidemic. The number of books about natural catastrophes is multiplying and at the current time it seems most people are waiting for more to come. The fact that the above mentioned disasters happened during a period that was a DAY which was pivotal for the continued process, the Fourth DAY, there are very srong reasons to expect new phenomena that we may collectively call natural disasters especially in the following DAYS of the Galactic Underworld.
Thus, these may come to intensify as we enter its Fifth DAY in November of 2006. The explanation to why natural disasters may increase during the DAYS may in very general terms be that the world that the human beings have created is not consistent with the world that the divine process of creation aims to create and that this becomes the most evident as a new LIGHT enters. I agree that this may serve poorly to explain the specifics of many such occurrences. Yet, in the Galactic Underworld logic may turn out much more to be based on synchronicities than on cause-effect.
Paradoxically then, the breakthroughs into a collective experience of the divine presence may come to take place in parallel with natural disasters. And as any student of the New Testament knows the description of the Second Coming of Christ is associated with exactly the same kind of paradoxical intensification of natural disasters.
Here we may note that Jesus warns against any person claiming to be him and says that he will return ³on the clouds of heaven² and maybe what is referred to here is as an energy, or more specifically, as an energy associated with a certain Heaven, which in the Mayan calendar is a time period.
This is the kind of breakthrough into the divine presence that we have reasons to expect for the Fifth DAY, and I would like to discuss the significance of the Fourth NIGHT that has now begun in the perspective of this breakthrough. Although there is some time to get ready for them the years ahead will really put the lightworkers, or, probably better, spiritual warriors, to the test.
As usual, the way the Mayan calendar is to be used prophetically is by analogies with the corresponding DAYS and NIGHTS of lower Underworlds.
In the National Underworld the Fourth NIGHT then corresponds to the time period 355 BC-AD 40 and in the Planetary to AD 1893-1913. This Fourth NIGHT can in significant ways be looked upon as a time when the innovations of the previous DAY were integrated as well as a time period which prepared for the breakthrough of the phenomena of the Underworld in question that took place during the Fifth DAY ruled by the energy of Quetzalcoatl - the lord of LIGHT - corresponding to AD 40-434 in the National Underworld and 1913-1932 in the Planetary.
Of course, the kind of phenomena that these time energies are manifesting are very different as they are developed within the frameworks of different levels of consciousness;
Hence, the National Underworld is dominated by a dualist, semi-enlightened, consciousness and the Planetary Underworld is dominated by an endarkened, materialist, consciousness.
This difference between Underworlds clearly shows up in the different phenomena that the time energy of Quetzalcoatl brings forth in them.
When it comes to the National Underworld, all I will point to in this article is that the Fourth NIGHT was the time leading up to the arrival of Jesus. As we may sense for instance from the Dead Sea Scrolls there were signs of the impending new energy of Quetzalcoatl already in the latter part of the Fourth NIGHT. This emerging shift in consciousness expressed itself in a number of Jewish sects, such as the Essenes outside of the established religious framework. What may then be the most obvious breakthrough of this Fifth DAY is the emergence of the Christian religion with its message of love and forgiveness. When it comes to understanding the detailed course of the Fourth NIGHT and its relationship to the breakthrough of the Fifth DAY it is however probably easier to study the Planetary Underworld, if nothing else because in this era there is no lack of historical records. The breakthrough of the Fifth DAY of the Planetary Underworld in 1913 was however not a breakthrough of a new religion, but a breakthrough to the materialist modern world. Even though the latter phenomena are very different in the National Underworld, or in our current Galactic Underworld, we may nonetheless learn a tremendous amount from the rhythm with which the new phenomena were introduced.
If we then initially take a look at what the breakthrough into Quetzalcoatl consciousness meant in the Fifth DAY, 1913-1932, it becomes clear that this is truly the breakthrough of the modern world. In 1913 assembly line production of cars began and it is hard to come up with something that would be more typical of it. As the old autocratic empires - the Chinese, Russian, Ottoman, Austrian and German crumbled, a range of nations appeared that were democracies, or, at the very least, modern states. The introduction of the radio, with the first public broadcasts in the US in 1910 and in Europe in 1913 for the first time allowed for mass telecommunications. Jazz music was born in 1914-1915 and the roaring twenties saw the liberation of women in dress and
behavior. In science, Bohr presented his atomic model based on quantum mechanics in 1913 and Einstein his general theory of relativity in 1915. Kandinsky painted the first piece of non-figurative art in 1913 and a range of ³isms,² such as surrealism, dadaism and futurism surged at the beginning of the DAY. The stuffy world of the autocratic empires was no more. This was the kind of effect that the breakthrough energy of Quetzalcoatl had in the Planetary Underworld.
Yet, and this is what is important to know when we are now entering the Fourth NIGHT of the Galactic Underworld, this breakthrough was prepared for by phenomena and events that occurred already during the Fourth NIGHT of the Planetary Underworld. The first company manufacturing automobiles was for instance established in 1896 (putting out 13 cars in that year). Marconi sent the first transatlantic radiotelegraphic message in 1902 and Ragtime began to make inroads against the all-pervasive Waltz already around 1900. The Russian revolution of 1905 heralded the later downfall of the autocratic empires and especially during the second half of the Fourth NIGHT there was an intensification of things preparing for the breakthrough. Einstein had proposed his special theory of relativity in 1905, but typically this was not taken seriously until experimental proof of it emerged in 1919 and something
similar was the case with Planck¹s fathering of quantum mechanics already in 1900. Cubism began in 1906, preparing for the breakthrough of non-figurative art, but not making it all the way.
I could go on like this and show that critical innovations to some extent were created already during the Fourth NIGHT of the Planetary Underworld, especially its latter half, but that it was only during the Fifth DAY, 1913-32, that they actually broke through and became accepted as phenomena that were perceived as lasting. The relationship between the Fourth NIGHT and the Fifth DAY will be similar in the current Galactic Underworld and I feel the spiritual warriors that want to be part of birthing the new world of oneness should assimilate the knowledge of this rhythm. What should also be mentioned here is that the breakthrough to the modern world in the time period 1913-32 was associated with two synchronistically related catastrophes, World War I 1914-18 and the Spanish Flu in 1918-1919, where the latter actually killed more people than the war. Especially when it comes to World War I it seems evident that the breakthrough into modernity, and especially
democracy, could hardly have taken place without the collapse of the autocratic empires that may be seen as the main outcome of World War I.
Hence, from the perspective of the Mayan calendar DAY and LIGHT does not always mean ³good² or ³happy.² All we can say is that divine creation works itself towards the end result that it is designed to arrive at and that the LIGHT may have consequences that to some are tragic. Generally, it seems that the more inconsistent the world is with the higher purpose of the divine plan, the greater the catastrophes will be. In the Fifth DAY of the Planetary Underworld the autocratic empires were clearly inconsistent with the emerging existential, if certainly not economic, equality that this Underworld brought.
In the National Underworld the Fifth DAY had been followed by the Fifth NIGHT, during the period AD 434-829, which brought the collapse of the Roman Empire through the onslaught of the Huns and Germanic peoples.
This initiated the so-called dark ages in European history. The early Christians that in the beginning of the Fifth DAY had been so inspired by the message of Jesus and the incoming energies had believed that the Kingdom of Heaven was imminent and that Jesus would return to the world.
With the beginning of the Fifth NIGHT this expectation was however thwarted. Thus, in the latter half of the Fifth DAY the Church became organized in a tight hierarchical structure and as the Fifth NIGHT (dominated by the energy of the lord of darkness, Tezcatlipoca) began the Church Father Augustine introduced the idea of the Original Sin in the Christian teaching, Moreover, the emphasis shifted from the resurrection of Christ to his suffering at the cross.
A direct parallel to this scenario unfolded in the beginning of the Fifth NIGHT of the Planetary Underworld in 1932. After the experience of a new freedom in the roaring twenties and the energies would be reversed and a reaction set in. The Stock Exchange crash in New York in 1929 was the forerunner of the Great Depression whose worst year globally speaking was in 1932, the very year that the energies of the Fifth NIGHT became dominant. About a month after the Fifth NIGHT began the Reichstagsfeuer took place in Berlin, which became the pretext for Hitler to take dictatorial power in Germany, and the rest we know.
Typically, people did not initially take this change for real: Following the Stock Exchange crash in New York people in general expected a swift upturn and initially few understood the danger of the rising dictatorships. The Fifth NIGHT of the Planetary Underworld turned into a great reaction against many of the liberating phenomena that had come into existence during the Fifth DAY in the same way as the Fifth NIGHT of the National Underworld became a reaction against the spiritual hopes that Christianity initially had brought.
It is a similar wave movement of energies that we have reasons to expect for the DAYS and NIGHTS ahead in the Galactic Underworld, since these alternating energies are beyond human control. Yet, I would like to emphasize that there is a difference between how we may perceive the energies of the Galactic Underworld and especially the Planetary Underworld. Since the DAYS of the Planetary Underworld meant the manifestation of a very materialist consciousness (since the front side of the human being was endarkened) it is easy to recognize all the concrete physical manifestations that its DAYS brought. In contrast, in our current era, the DAYS of the Galactic Underworld are bringing LIGHT to the intuitive right brain half amounting to a possibility for healing and a breakthrough into spirituality. Since, however, the right brain
half generally is not the one that is behind technological advances, there is little reason to expect that its manifestations will be directly evident in the same way as all the things that came with the materialist Planetary Underworld. In fact, very much of the spiritual breakthroughs that the Galactic Underworld will carry may not at all be visible. This is meant as a reminder for the many, who sometimes see no movement forward in man¹s spiritual evolution. The current change occurs on a subtle, but nonetheless very profound level.
Initially the Fourth NIGHT of the Galactic Underworld, which we have now recently entered, will be a time of integration and then, especially in the second half of the NIGHT there will be more and more phenomena popping up that pave the way for the breakthrough into experiencing the divine presence that will be brought by the Fifth DAY. The shift point for this breakthrough into Quetzalcoatl/Christ energy will take place on November 24, 2006. Following this breakthrough many will experience states of enlightenment previously completely unknown to them and without the guidance of the Mayan calendar it would be easy to believe that the new world has already been born. I have for instance a sense that as we enter this energy of Quetzalcoatl, it will be possible for people to receive the gift of being able to pass on the experience of divine presence (diksha) to others spontaneously, and very possibly this
ability will start to flow between persons in contact with diksha givers. The experiences of divine presence will be much more profound than they are now and maybe the reception of the cosmic LIGHT of this DAY will be experienced directly by the human receivers.
What the Mayan calendar exactly describes is the kind of cosmic and global field changes that produce such collective shifts in consciousness. Yet, I suspect that this spiritual breakthrough will take place in parallel with dramatic natural catastrophes or a collapse of the international monetary system. Following this, on November 19, 2007, the energy of Tezcatlipoca will set in and we will see a very significant reaction, almost certainly led by forces in the West, and particularly the US, that with very forceful methods will try, and probably for at least half a tun be very successful in bringing the world back into the materialist fold and into the old ideals of the Planetary Underworld, but in a much more oppressive form is currently is the case. Incidentally, in case someone doubted, there will not be a need to have a change in rulership
for this to be accomplished and as we saw in the earlier Underworlds the vast majority will follow along. In the Book of Revelation this may be what is referred to as the Beast.
The Galactic Underworld is the Apocalypse and in its latter half the spiritual warriors will be put to the test like never before. By spiritual warrior I here mean a person who stays committed to the higher purpose of evolution in the midst of the many forces that will try to sway her away from this. It is also a person that has integrity and tells the truth and it is only to be expected that the kind of ethical issues that we will be facing under both the energies of Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca will be new and sometimes very difficult to deal with.
Simple habitual responses to the new situations will not be possible requiring a very high degree of taking responsibility for one¹s actions.
The temptations to go along with the energy of Tezcatlipoca will in the Fifth NIGHT be very strong and it will be only too easy to rationalize this. To avoid falling into these traps I feel it is crucial that many people grasp the overall wave movement of time that the true Mayan calendar describes. This will be a very important support for us to be able to continue our missions in the times ahead.
I have here hinted at the possibility, or rather, likelihood of different kinds of disasters in the coming time and many will ask how to avoid being hit by these. I have no answers to this, but feel that the best approach is to ask yourself:
³How do I best serve divine creation and the process towards oneness at the end point of the Galactic Underworld, October 28, 2011?²
This is in my view the best way of living a meaningful life rather than being dictated by fear of things that are still outside of our control. If you are able to find an answer to this question then I recommend that you should stay with it. Yet, although in this article I emphasize the likely difficulties to come the Apocalypse, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean the end of the world. What the book of Revelation describes, often like the Mayan calendar through
sequences of seven steps, is a very turbulent era leading to the New Jerusalem - a state of Oneness with the divine.
The tuns ahead, and especially the shift point between the energies of Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca, will hence make great demands of the spiritual warriors of today. Yet, especially the Fifth DAY is likely to bring great joy and enlightenment through the increasing divine presence in the energy of Quetzalcoatl and there is no reason to try to put a lid on such experiences even though the times may be momentous.
What I want to point out however is the necessity of being aware of the kind of adverse phenomena that will accompany these breakthroughs and even more so the reaction towards materialism and democratic dictatorship that the
energy of Tezcatlipoca will bring. It is thus also to be expected that in the energy of Tezcatlipoca the chaos will be blamed on the spiritual breakthroughs and that the spiritual warriors will become scapegoats.
The main source of knowledge about the wave movement of energies in the time ahead is the true Mayan calendar although, as is common in its history some will work to produce false Mayan calendars leading people to confuse Quetzalcoatl (the energy of light) with Tezcatlipoca (the energy of darkness). The true Mayan calendar is what charts the path to what in Christian theology is called the New Jerusalem, a name for the state of Oneness that completes the Apocalypse that the Galactic Underworld will deliver us to a few more energy shifts down the road.
Orsa, 9 Chuen in the first uinal of the Fourth NIGHT of the Galactic
Carl Johan Calleman
Carl Johan Calleman is the author of The Mayan Calendar (Garev, 2001)
and The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness (Bear and
Co, 2004). He was the initiator of the Oneness Celebration at the
occasion of the Venus Transit, June 6-8, 2004 and the Midlight
Meditation of June 1-2, 2005. He holds a doctorate in physical biology
and has the web page is http://www.calleman.com/


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Katie Couric said goodbye to the CBS "Evening News" Thursday, ending her five-year run as the first female to anchor a news network show solo.
The anchorwoman paused at the end of the half-hour news program to reminisce about her time covering national and international news.
"It's extraordinary privilege to sit in this chair," Couric said, ending with, "to all of you watching, thank you for coming along with me on this journey."
The show broadcast a montage of "five years in five minutes," highlighting big interviews with former President Bush, President Obama, Michael J. Fox, General Petraeus, and other newsmakers. They also showed clips from historic moments Couric had covered, like the the killing of Osama bin Laden and the royal wedding.
Sarah Palin also had a brief cameo in the montage, but it bypassed the infamous series of interviews in which the former vice-presidential candidate flustered at questions about foreign policy and her favorite newspapers, considered a turning point in the 2008 campaign.
Couric announced her departure last Friday after weeks of leaked reports and speculation. Her name has been tossed around with the possibility of a talk show for ABC daytime next year, according to the Hollywood Reporter. "Evening News" producer Ric Kaplan's move to ABC, reported by The Associated Press, fuels that speculation.
Scott Pelley will officially take over the anchor desk on June 6. In the meanwhile, rotating substitute anchors will fill in.
Selected Reading: CBS News,The Huffington Post, The New York Times